Chapter 136 - Walter’s Plans (1/2)

A small team of Federation Army members searched the interior of the spaceship after blowing up the Grey-faced Buzzard’s hatch. Of course, they ended up finding nothing-no one was hiding in it and no useful clues were found.

Gu Ding and the others had packed up their belongings and stashed their valuables in the Inventory ring. Biggie even packed all the pots and pans in the kitchen to prevent the Army from smashing things during their search.

Most of the other teams did not find anything. After all, the Army was too aggressive earlier. Many people saw trouble and packed up to hide in the city before the spaceships even docked.

The city the port belonged to was called Bartow. It was the largest city in Great Divinity with a population of more than twenty-four million.

It was undoubtedly difficult to find a few Interstellar Pirates in a population of more than twenty-four million, the same went for Gu Ding and his friends. Thanks to Neptune, they were invisible to all the video and camera equipment in Bartow.

At the port, one after another, the teams would report their search results-only three teams found people hiding in the spaceships. They naively expected that Port Authority would not allow the Army to force the spaceships open. Some even clamored they would complain about Port Authority and the Army to the federal court when they were caught.

Those who were arrested were mostly those who could not escape in time. They were still observing when they saw the Army’s spaceship land. They had only reacted when the Army showed its manpower, but by then it was already too late.

The speed of thirty mechs was comparable to that of a Rank-8 Gene Body martial arts practitioner. Most of the Interstellar Pirates were unable to evade them.

Sharp was not too pleased after hearing the results because none of the people were on their list of wanted fugitives. For example, up-and-coming newcomer teams such as Gu Ding’s teams and Bart’s teams, as well as some powerful older teams.

“Well, I didn’t expect to catch those guys so easily.” Walter who was standing beside him was not surprised, he even gave a faint smile. “This is only the first stage of the pursuit…”

“I realized that this time, things have turned out more interesting than I anticipated. My biggest regret was that I couldn’t meet Biggie in person…” Emily looked like she was in her early twenties. As a Rank-10 Gene Body powerhouse, she could live until she’s at least eight hundred years old. Her youthful appearance would remain until she was three hundred years old before aging slowly.

“Emily, Biggie’s my target. I told you before we came here. You can deal with him all you want after I hunt him down, but I don’t want you to intervene in the hunt.” Sharp frowned. He had finally met another Rank-10 Gene Body swordsman, of course, he refused to let him go easily. He had only ever encountered a similar opponent once in Border River, and that battle was a truly challenging one.

“I didn’t say I was going to snatch this from you. In fact, if you lose, I’m not helping.” As she was also an Army general, Emily could care less about the others-she had never been afraid of Sharp who was the strongest.

They had worked together for a few years. Sharp knew about her temper and said nothing about her reply.

“Sister Emily, our plan requires your help in capturing Biggie. His actual combat effectiveness remains unknown to this day. It’s a huge obstacle for this operation…” Before Walter could finish, he was interrupted by two people at the same time.

“I’m not attacking!”

“I don’t need help!”

Walter did not expect to encounter this. He froze for a moment and changed the subject. “Based on our intel, Gu Ding and his team will be the hardest to capture. Not only do they have outstanding combat effectiveness, but Gu Ding’s hacking abilities could also cause us huge difficulty. He’ll definitely be erasing all their traces. It’ll be impossible to find them through standard surveillance systems.”

Just then an Army senior colonel appeared. “Sir, bad news. Someone tampered with our spaceship’s password, we can’t get in, and the people in it can’t get out. We’ve checked on the other spaceships; they’re also experiencing the same issue.”

Sharp leaped onto the Golden Eagle. He pressed his palm on the hatch, but it did not respond. He tried entering the password again, but the system stated that the password was wrong. He leaped off the Golden Eagle and waved his hand. “Get the password cracker and fix this!”

“Gu Ding did this?” Emily, who was beside him could not think of anyone else besides Gu Ding who would do such a thing.

“Who else?” Sharp said peevishly.

“This is child’s play.” Emily covered her mouth and laughed. “One of the teams earlier blew up the hatch to their spaceship, that’s probably why they retaliated that way. It’s alright though. It’s nothing more than a prank. If it were me, I’d definitely choose to activate all the Army spaceships’ self-destruct system.”